Kitchen Assistant

3 months ago

Harrogate, United Kingdom We Care Group Full time

**We Care Group**

We Care Group are a family owned company. Founded on the tradition of healthcare excellence, we bring a combination of the highest quality health care services and experienced, compassionate and dedicated staff to all of our nursing and care homes

We offer a warm, supportive and uplifting environment, where our residents are able to maintain their own individuality and feel at home. We take pride in being both small enough to care and large enough to be able to care. After all, we believe in ‘caring for our loved ones, like they cared for us’

**Job Overview**

As a Kitchen Assistant you’ll prepare, cook and serve good nutritional and satisfying meals for residents, including preferences, special diets and foods as needed. You need to do this in a timely manner.

**Benefits**
- Blue Light Card
- NVQ’s available (eligible for student discount card)
- Cover the cost of the DBS (£40)
- Uniform provided (company branded tunic x 2)
- Company Events (such as Care Awards)
- Buddy System (receive £200 upon your buddy successfully completing their probation period)
- Employee of the month (£100)
- On site parking

**About The Role**

**Responsibilities and Duties of the Job**
- Support the chef to deliver a varied and nutritional menu in line with dietary needs
- Adhering to completing all mandatory paperwork including: adhering to COSHH and company guidelines, policies and procedures
- Support the chef with ordering from preferred suppliers
- Regularly monitor stock control and to inform the Chef / Manager of any discrepancies.
- To ensure proper stock rotation of foodstuffs to minimise wastage, and to dispose of promptly any foodstuff found to be past "sell-by" dates for any reason.
- To help prepare beverages and food
- To maintain a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness in the kitchen and food storage areas at all times, in accordance with the appropriate Food Hygiene Regulations
- Ensuring deep cleaning of the kitchen is adhered to on a regular basis
- To assist in the monitoring and recording of refrigerator, chiller and freezer temperatures
- Actively participating in discussions, with the kitchen team, to improve the service
- Ensure all the dishes are washed, dried and put away promptly

**Our Value-Based Personal Qualities**

**Working Together**
- Involve our residents, family, external agencies & colleagues.
- Speak up when things go wrong.

**Respect and Dignity**
- Understand person-centered care and can demonstrate treating people as individuals and respecting choices.
- Promoting independence and encouraging appropriate risk-taking.

**Everybody Counts**
- Ensuring no one is discriminated against or excluded.
- Understand human rights and impact on care delivery.
- Facilitating people to ‘speak up’ about concerns and acting upon them.

**Commitment to Quality of Care**
- Striving for quality in everything we do recognising and understanding what quality in care means for people within our homes.
- Being accepting about criticism and focusing on improvement.
- Being open to new opportunities for learning and identifying the limits of skills and knowledge.

**Compassion**
- Treating people with kindness.
- Understanding the importance of empathy in all areas of employment.
- Understanding the values of others and always providing a caring service.

**Improving Lives**
- Focus on how things could be done better and sharing ideas.
- Understanding of wellbeing and what is important to our residents.
- Improving outcomes for people.
- Ensuring appropriate services are provided for our residents.

**Please note that the duties and requirements in this job description may change as the needs of our services users and homes change. They may also change to align with future policies.**

**Required Criteria**
- Right to live and work in the UK

**Skills Needed**

Exceptional Customer Service Skills, Chefing Skills, HACCP/Food Safety Management Skills

**About The Company**

We treat all of our residents as individuals. We care about their unique needs as well as their likes and dislikes, hobbies and past times. We make sure every one of our residents is provided with a completely personalised care plan; giving them dignity, choice and independence in a home from home environment.

Our reputation is built on more than 15 years of experience in care and we work hard to make sure that all of our homes provide a safe, homely and happy setting for residents - we want our homes to be their homes. This also means that all of our 30 homes are completely unique, designed to meet the individual needs of our residents and make the most of the home environment and its surroundings.

Each home has a dedicated team delivering round-the-clock care to meet the varying and often complex needs of our residents. We continually invest in our homes and this, as well as our rigorous quality and safety standards, enables us to ensure our homes meet our exceptionally high standards and deliver th

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